Kim Kardashian and Jessica Simpson are racing to throw the wedding of the year.

Source: okmagazine.com / OK Magazine (July 25 2011)

Tickets are available for the TV audience of the new NBC show, Fashion Star – starring Elle Macpherson, Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie and John Varvatos. Available for FREE and only those aged 18+.

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Behind the scenes at the tween photo shoot… Can’t wait to see you young ladies rockin them!

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In just 31 short years, Jessica Simpson has become a triple threat celebrity, becoming a success in music, fashion and reality television. Celebuzz looks back at the many looks of Jessica on her birthday!

Jessica has quite the year ahead of her!

It was announced that Jessica has landed yet another reality program called Fashion Show that will also feature Nicole Richie. According to the New York Post, the NBC show will follow “14 fashion-savvy contestants as they battle to win a multi-million-dollar contract to launch their own fashion label in three of the country’s largest retailers.” It will also be taped before a live studio audience.

In her personal life, Jessica got engaged last year so can we expect a wedding in her future? She told Us Magazine in April that she and fiance Eric Johnson had decided on a date but didn’t disclose it. “I’m still trying to figure out what to wear! I don’t know if I want the big boom, or the curvy thing, but it will be something beautiful,” she told Us. “I kind of have a couple ideas in my head, and I have a date; I’m really excited!”

View the gallery HERE.

Source: celebuzz.com

Jessica Simpson was feeling the love on her birthday!

The singer and style icon, who turned 31 Sunday, tweeted that it was “only 1 p.m. and I think I have pretty much heard from everyone in my life! That is a birthday record! Huge smile on my face!”

Hours later, Simpson’s fiance Eric Johnson presented her with the ultimate gift: a bright orange Birkin bag (with an estimated retail value of $15,000).

“Eric made my birthday!” Simpson raved of the lavish gift. “I have never been more surprised in my life! Jackie O who?”

Simpson’s 31st year looks to be a promising one: she will mentor aspiring fashion designers alongside Nicole Richie and menswear designer John Varvatos on NBC’s new reality competition series, Fashion Star. Hosted by supermodel Elle MacPherson, Executive VP of Alternative Programming Paul Telegdy recently told Us Weekly he’s happy to have Simpson on board.

“With an almost billion dollar lifestyle brand under her belt she is sure to be an excellent mentor to our up-and-coming designers,” he said.

Source: usmagazine.com

Fashion stars indeed!

Nicole Richie is set to offer her design expertise as a celebrity mentor on NBC’s new reality competition series, Fashion Star, the network confirmed Thursday. The Winter Kate designer, 29, will join menswear designer John Varvatos and previously announced celebrity mentor Jessica Simpson on the series, which is hosted by Elle MacPherson.

“Jessica, Nicole, John and Elle make the most exciting team we have ever worked with on a reality television show and we are thrilled to feature such an extraordinary group of mentors and designers,” Fashion Star’s executive producer, Ben Silverman, tells Us Weekly in a statement.

Though she helms a fashion empire, mom of two Richie says her own personal style is much less thought out.

“I don’t think it’s as prepared as you’d think,” she recently told U.K.’s In Style magazine. “I just grab whatever’s around and put it on.”

She says she’s “pretty much a jeans and T-shirt type of girl and then I go from there.”

Her style secret? “I collect a lot of vintage kimonos and vintage bed jackets,” she says. “I’ll throw those on, and a lot of the time it will appear that I’m wearing a completely different outfit, but I’m not.”

Source: usmagazine.com

Jessica Simpson and fiancé Eric Johnson were in good company during dinner at Santa Monica’s Ivy at the Shore: they dined with the singer’s mom, Tina, and best pal Cacee Cobb. The group sat at a corner table, and Simpson was approached by two fans for a photo. Says an onlooker: “She was sweet and said yes.” During the leisurely meal, Simpson and Johnson were relaxed and “adorable with one another,” the onlooker says.

Source: people.com

NBC announced today that musician, entertainer and fashion designer Jessica Simpson will serve as a celebrity mentor on “Fashion Star,” the new reality competition series that will search for the next big brand in fashion with host Elle Macpherson, world-famous super-model icon, actress and businesswoman.

The announcement was made today by Paul Telegdy, Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming, NBC and Universal Media Studios.

“NBC is delighted to work with singer, designer, actress and pop culture icon Jessica Simpson,” said Telegdy. “With an almost billion dollar lifestyle brand under her belt she is sure to be an excellent mentor to our up-and-coming designers.”

“Jessica Simpson has built an incredible fashion business and is a perfect mentor to our aspiring designers,” said Ben Silverman, CEO and founder of Electus. “She will complement the buyers, Elle Macpherson and amazing format.”

Multi-media studio Electus, an operating business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), 5X5 Media and The Magical Elves (Emmy Award winners for “Top Chef” and the original producers of “Project Runway”) are the producers of “Fashion Star.” The series is designed not only to groom and discover America’s next popular brand, but through an exciting new format twist, it will allow viewers at home to buy the winning designs each week. The show will target real-time consumer feedback and interactivity and will span all categories of fashion from suits and dresses to lingerie, denim, bathing suits, accessories and more.

Simpson has taken the music, entertainment and fashion industries by storm. She has seven Billboard Top 40 hits and has starred in such feature films as “The Dukes of Hazzard,” “Employee of the Month” and “Blonde Ambition.” Simpson has also starred in the iconic hit reality series “Newlyweds” for MTV and her own VH1 docu-series, “The Price of Beauty.” She has guest-starred in such series as “Entourage” and “That ’70s Show.” In addition, Simpson has created a fashion empire with her Jessica Simpson Collection. The eponymous line boasts 22 product categories including shoes, handbags, jewelry, sunglasses and perfume.

The series will give 14 unknown designers the chance to win a multi-million dollar contract to launch their lines in three of America’s largest retailers. Each week, the show will kick off with an exhilarating fashion show unlike anything seen before featuring musical performances, dancers, and models in front of a live studio audience. Every fashion show will be built around a weekly challenge that is designed to further develop and expand the designer’s brand.

Buyers from each of the retailers will serve as the judges, making on-the-spot decisions as they bid against each other, dipping into their own wallets to purchase the work of these up-and-coming designers each week. These items will shape the future of their respective stores and create the next big trends for consumers. At the end of each episode, America will have the chance to immediately purchase the winning designs showcased on the episode that week. What viewers see on TV that night will be on the streets and in stores the very next day. With just a single trip down the runway, “Fashion Star” will change the lives and fortunes of these aspiring designers forever.

The show is hosted and executive-produced by one of the world’s most famous fashion icons, Macpherson. She best embodies the role of what it means to be a smart, savvy and creative business woman as she is also the founder of a series of internationally successful, U.K.-based business ventures including Elle Macpherson Intimates, a lingerie line celebrating its 20th year, and “The Body”, a line of skin-care products. The Australian-born Macpherson became one of the world’s top fashion models and was named as one of People magazine’s “Most Beautiful People.”

Fashion designers featured on the show will include everyone from the stay-at-home mom who makes her own clothes to sell at the local flea market, to the recent Parsons School of Design graduate who just landed his or her first job at Marc Jacobs. All the contestants will be put to the test to see how they react in a variety of real-world scenarios to determine who has the vision and desire to build a fashion empire and achieve their dream. With top experts as their guides and mentors throughout the process, designers will have to be as adept in the business of fashion as they are in their creativity as it’s up to them to make their brand a national reality.

In the end, one designer will successfully combine fashion and business to become the next “Fashion Star” and will receive the prize of a lifetime – an exclusive capsule line in each of the three largest retailers in the country.

“Fashion Star” is created by E.J. Johnston and James Deutch of the Global Fashion Association, Rick Ringbakk of Emmy Award-winning 5×5 Media (“Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution”) and Ben Silverman (“The Biggest Loser,” “The Office,” “The Tudors”).

The show is executive-produced by Silverman of Electus, Jane Lipsitz & Dan Cutforth of The Magical Elves, Ringbakk of 5×5 Media (a full-service production company in an overall production and distribution agreement within the Electus studio system), Macpherson, and Johnston & Deutch of Global Fashion Association. Electus/Engine Distribution will retain all international distribution rights.

Source: nbc.com

Fall in love with the new fragrance from the Jessica Simpson Collection. I Fancy You is available in stores this week!

The fragrance is a delicate floral, containing notes of Fuji apple, tuberose and sandalwood. Available as 50 and 100 ml EDP.

Source: facebook.com/jessicasimpsoncollection & twitter.com/JSCollection

Jessica Simpson is taking on the role of mentor to aspiring designers for a new NBC reality series. The network said Monday that Simpson will help guide contestants in the series “Fashion Star” as they compete for a multimillion-dollar contract to launch their own brand.

Elle McPherson will host the show, which NBC promises to be a “true spectacle” taped in front of a studio audience and featuring music, dancers and models along with weekly challenges for the contestants. Simpson, 30, (“The Dukes of Hazzard,” TV’s “The Price of Beauty”) is a fashion mogul as well as entertainer, with a line that carries her name and includes 22 product categories.

“NBC is delighted to work with singer, designer, actress and pop culture icon Jessica Simpson,” said Paul Telegdy, NBC and Universal Media Studios executive vice president. “With an almost billion-dollar lifestyle brand under her belt she is sure to be an excellent mentor to our up-and-coming designers.”

The contestant who best combines fashion and business gets a contract to launch a line with three major retailers, which are yet to be announced. Buyers from each chain will serve as judges, keeping contestants in the competition by buying their designs.

Viewers won’t have to wait to shop for what they see: Each week’s winning design in categories ranging from suits to lingerie to accessories will be available for immediate online purchase.

Producers of “Fashion Star” include former NBC executive Ben Silverman, and Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz of Magical Elves, original producers of “Project Runway.”

“Project Runway,” hosted by Heidi Klum, was a hit for NBC Universal’s Bravo channel before a legal clash ended with the series moving to Lifetime.

The debut date for “Fashion Star” was not announced.

Source: ap.org